{"id":5609,"date":"2026-04-27T10:54:43","date_gmt":"2026-04-27T05:24:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/economictimes.lk\/?p=5609"},"modified":"2026-04-27T10:54:44","modified_gmt":"2026-04-27T05:24:44","slug":"remittances-in-1q-2026-up-by-record-of-27-to-2-29-bn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/economictimes.lk\/index.php\/2026\/04\/27\/remittances-in-1q-2026-up-by-record-of-27-to-2-29-bn\/","title":{"rendered":"Remittances in 1Q 2026 up by record of 27% to $ 2.29 Bn"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The Sri Lanka Foreign Employment Bureau states that the amount of remittances sent by migrant workers to the country during the first quarter of this year has increased by 26.5% compared to the first quarter of last year. From January to March 2026, the country received remittances of US $ 2.29billion. The amount of remittances received during the first 3 months of 2025 was $ 1,815 million. (1.81 billion) In January 2026, $ 751 million, $ 729 million in February and $ 815 million in March were received.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Meanwhile, 62,145 workers have gone abroad for work from January to the end of March this year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Source: Daily News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Sri Lanka Foreign Employment Bureau states that the amount of remittances sent by migrant&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":5610,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/economictimes.lk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5609"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/economictimes.lk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/economictimes.lk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/economictimes.lk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/economictimes.lk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5609"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/economictimes.lk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5609\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5611,"href":"https:\/\/economictimes.lk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5609\/revisions\/5611"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/economictimes.lk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5610"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/economictimes.lk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5609"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/economictimes.lk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5609"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/economictimes.lk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5609"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}